Nancy and Rich Kinder Building Events Week of Wednesday, November 11, 2020-Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Looking South: Collecting the Arts of Mexico Through February 26, 2023
ON VIEW AT RIENZI | Looking South: Collecting the Arts of Mexico features objects and ephemera created in Mexico from the 18th to the mid-20th century.
09 Feb Thu / 2023
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Drop-in Tour | Get to Know the Kinder Building
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.On this guided tour, visit favorite works of art and discover new commissions in the Kinder Building, designed to house the MFAH collection of modern and contemporary art from around the world.
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Drop-in Tour | Highlights of the Kinder Building
3:30 p.m.—4:30 p.m.On this guided tour, see the modern and contemporary art on view in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building.
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Attributed to John Constable, A View on the Banks of the River Stour, 1815, oil on board, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Stuart Collection, gift of Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of James Chillman, Jr., the first Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Concert | “Beautiful, Picturesque, and Sublime”
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.The MFAH and the DaCamera Young Artists present a free concert inspired by the Stuart Collection of British landscape paintings.
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Attributed to John Constable, A View on the Banks of the River Stour, 1815, oil on board, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Stuart Collection, gift of Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of James Chillman, Jr., the first Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Concert | “Beautiful, Picturesque, and Sublime”
7:30 p.m.—8:30 p.m.The MFAH and the DaCamera Young Artists present a free concert inspired by the Stuart Collection of British landscape paintings.
11 Feb Sat / 2023
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Drop-in Tour | Highlights of the Kinder Building
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.On this guided tour, see the modern and contemporary art on view in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building.
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Diego Rivera, La Bordadora, 1928, oil on canvas. © 2022 Christie’s Images Limited
Lecture | Labor and National Identity in Diego Rivera’s “La Bordadora (The Embroiderer)”
3 p.m.—4 p.m.The rediscovered 1928 painting La Bordadora (The Embroiderer) depicts an emergent symbol of Mexico’s post-revolutionary national identity.
